> Mad Cow desease has been found in deer herds in America recently (wild herds, I understand, rather than farmed), and there have been at least 3 cases of Creutzfeld-Jakobs desease (the human form, from eating infected spinal chord) in the US linked to this.
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> winter"any mention of Mad Cow gets press in England these days"mute

Really? I haven't heard about it. Do scientists have any idea of how the deer contracted it? I know the cattle in England got it from scrapie infected sheep, but I doubt the deer had access to that sort of feed.

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